6. Conclusion:
re-engineering the hospitality ecosystem through smartness The proposed smart hospitality framework enables fully integrated internal and external applications and data exchange from the cloud, and obtains recent and historical data from big data. Standardisation of communication protocols and the development of a comprehensive ontology enable seamless communication among the ecosystem and sub-ecosystem partners and increases the effectiveness of interoperability among applications. Therefore hotel owners would have a seamless, transparent and flexible infrastructure with minimum the investment on customizing interfacing software. Managers can obtain comprehensive internal and external, empirical and contextual data and make use of DSS and yield management software for scenario testing to enhance their marketing and strategic planning (Pan et al., 2015). Although the smart hospitality network brings in advantages to the ecosystem, information inside the network become transparent and increases the competition within the ecosystem. The relationship and loyalty between ecosystem members and their sub-ecosystems is getting stronger as they can develop clusters of activity. Adding value to each stakeholder is of paramount importance. To encourage hotels to upload and share their business data to the big data on the cloud, they need to maintain confidentiality, these data through aggregation and to ensure that clear value is provided through the process.